Governor K. Sankaranarayanan on Saturday assured women journalists that he will take up the issue of women’s safety in the state with chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.

The MNS has put moral pressure on state home minister R.R. Patil by sending thousands of bangles to his residences on Saturday.

Tension was in the air right before the first alleged accused in the Mumbai gangrape was produced before the magistrate court.

Gold staged a smart rally and hit a nine-month high at the domestic bullion market Saturday on strong buying from stockists amid jewellery and investment demand in the backdrop of surge in global commodity market.

Vilas Muttemwar, a Congress MP from Nagpur, has written a letter to all 24 Congress MLAs from Vidarbha, appealing to them to unite in support of statehood for Vidarbha.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram Saturday held a closed-door meeting here with top bankers to take stock of the situation in the wake of rupee volatility and ways to shore up foreign capital to bridge the widening current account gap.

While Mumbai generates about 7000 metric tonnes of garbage each day, the sea throws up additional waste.

In spite of last two days’ recovery, both key indices Sensex and Nifty continued to decline for the straight fifth week on persistent selling pressure due to sustained depreciation of the rupee against the US dollar.

The Bombay high court on Friday upheld 2011 order by a single bench that refused a stay on the winding up of Swadeshi Mills spread across 48 acres.

A second accused in the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old photo journalist was Saturday arrested from south Mumbai even as police launched a manhunt for three others in the case, which sparked a wave of protests.